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In Europe, particularly in Germany, for many years it has been against the law to even utter the word 'nazi' regardless of context. 

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There is actually no need to get this script going for FireFox as it can be imported as a HTML Window in DVD Profiler

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Give me a break, Unicus. you are self righteous and self serving and sometimes more than a little pompous. Look at the garbage going on in Jena, LA right now. There are those that are attempting to justify the beating of this boy because of an incident tha had transpired 3 months before. And even in this post you are being judgemental, how? Because you are trying define John's response as worse, they were both wrong, which one is worse is not my job or yours to try and sit in judgement of. It is simple: Two wrongs don't make a right. Sometimes, my friend...I wonder.

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Just who the hell are you to speak for John and say that his being insulted was not justified. You lack that ability.

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I am not interested in examining my own behavior, at least until such time as I start seeing more adult and intelligent behavior generally. I am also quite amused at those who so easily sit in judgement of another,and it all usually revolves around I want you to behave the way I deem appropriate.

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There is a difference between being offended by a certain term when it is applied in a personal manner, and stifling of a discussion because someone uses a word or term that might make them uncomfortable.

You are correct, there is a difference.  This is the former, not the latter.

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Here in the US, for example, very often if someone tries to have a discussion on racial issues, unless the discussion is started by a black the speaker gets attacked as a racist, as if only blacks can understand racism.  That is absolutely wrong, and we should not tolerate that sort of politically correct censorship.  Ultimately, it suppresses the free exchange of ideas - some of which might be offensive - and that is never good.  In Europe, particularly in Germany, for many years it has been against the law to even utter the word 'nazi' regardless of context.  I don't know if that is still the law, but hiding from it like that does nobody any good.  In fact, I've heard that such suppression has actually helped the growth of neo-nazi skinhead groups in many parts of Germany because suppression leads to ignorance of the facts about nazism.  It has become the forbidden fruit and thus glamorized among young people who don't know the history of it.

Censorship of any kind is abhorrent to me.  You may or may not agree with the terminology I used, but allowing it to be taken out of context and misunderstood is wrong.  Imbuing words with human-like characteristics, such as evil, is the sign of someone who has let paranoia take over their thinking.

Oh please.  You were not trying to have a discussion about anything.  You took offense to a comment and responded with and insult.  While all of this sounds reasonable, it is just a further attempt to justify your actions.  I may have been born during the day, but I wasn't born yesterday.

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I was referring to a certain type of behavior, not any particular individual.  Of course, the way some people reacted, you'd never know that.

I am sorry, but no.  This is a cop out.  surfeur51 called you "Skip's devoted soldier" and you responded by refering to him as "the Forum Post Gestapo."  It was, indeed, aimed at a specific user and it was intended as an insult.  No amount of rationalization on your part is going to change what is painfully obvious to anybody with half a brain.